About saving vids

[FCV224]

Okay, I didn't know where to ask this at, so if this isn't the right forum, then I'm sorry...I'm just confused where to put some of these questions, anyway...I want to know, after you make a CD with videos on it, and you want to add more to the same CD, how can you go about doing it, if that's at all possible...because I tried before, and I couldn't add any more to the CD...so, once you make a CD with videos, is that all you can put on that one CD?

[Fucknugget]

i thought that once you closed out the sessions and burned to disc... that you can't add to that disc any longer...

[kmon]

It depends what you mean by a "CD with video on it". You could put video on a CD in 2 ways. Either just by burning AVI and MPG and MOV files to it as a standard data CD. This type of CD is only playable on a computer as the CD has a standard CD-ROM file format. In this way, you can keep adding to the CD so long as you don't close the CD after burning - in effect creating a multi-session CD.

The second way (and I assume the way you mean) is by creating a VCD or SVCD type CD. This is a specially formatted CD that is playable by many (but not all) DVD players and computers of course. Because of the limitation of the format of VCD and SVCD, only one encoded video can be put on the disc. You can of course join a bunch of vids and encode them all at once on to a CD, but once you've actually burnt the disc, that's it.

[FCV224]

Damn, that sucks...I was hoping that was not the case...thanxs kmon

[FCV224]

I have another question, last night I tried to delete some movies off of the disc that had the movies on it, and it said it was a read-only, so I couldn't do it...although, it said that if I wanted to, I could copy other movies to it instead...so, can I just put the disc in, open up the E drive, and just copy and paste different movies in replace of the ones that I don't want, or do I have to redo it all over again?

[kmon]

What type of disc is it? CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW? If it is of the +-RW and you have either Nero's InCD or Adaptec's DirectCD driver loaded, then you can just drag and drop files on to the E: drive like it was a floppy disk. Anything else and you have to use a burning tool (Nero, Easy CD Creator, etc) to add a new session (append to the disc). Both Nero and Easy CD should do it automatically for you. This assumes that the disc is not closed of course.

[FCV224]

Originally Posted by kmon

What type of disc is it? CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW? If it is of the +-RW and you have either Nero's InCD or Adaptec's DirectCD driver loaded, then you can just drag and drop files on to the E: drive like it was a floppy disk. Anything else and you have to use a burning tool (Nero, Easy CD Creator, etc) to add a new session (append to the disc). Both Nero and Easy CD should do it automatically for you. This assumes that the disc is not closed of course.

Well, the discs are DVD-R, and I use Nero

[kmon]

Once something is burnt to a CD-R or DVD-R, that's it... You can't delete it or change it. The only thing you can do is keep adding to the end of the disc until it's full or you close the disc.

[FCV224]

So, then if you add vids to the E drive, while the disc is in...and if you close the disc without burning it, they will still be there...because I tried that once, and I thought that they got deleted

[kmon]

If you are using the drag and drop burning functionality that comes with Win XP and you close the disc without burning it, you won't loose the files. Under Win XP, when you drop a file on a CD-RW/DVD-RW drive Windows creates a link file in a special directory under the Documents and Settings folder for your profile. It does not do anything with the original file, not even move it. So, if you close the disc without burning the files, the link files just stay there until you burn them to another disc or choose to clear the list of files to burn - which again doesn't do anything to the original files, it just deletes the link files.

[FCV224]

Okay, well, I will try that...thanks again Kmon